Was There A Country Just Called Arabia?

In northern Arabia, the al-Rasheed's became pre-occupied by a struggle with... read more

During the first century, CE Greek sailors pioneered the Indian Ocean trade routes,... read more

An Ayyubid governor of Yemen established his independence in 1229, and founded... read more

In 1806 the Wahhabi movement, headed by the Saud family, captured... read more

The control of the lucrative maritime trade is now in the... read more

The history of the Middle East over the past 500 years or so... read more

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The peninsula is home to Arab nomads, living a life which... read more

With the outbreak of World War 1, Kuwait became a British... read more

The British staged a withdrawal from the region in the 1960s... read more